St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09


day deeply interesting. The season
opened with a great deal of bitterness
of feeling between managers and play
ers, owing to the barter of men like cat
tie. Chicago led the way in this traffic,
selling Kelly for $4,000, Gore and Dali
fymple for smaller sums and eXchang-
ing Mccormick for Van Haltren, and
the public, to which thisusort of thing
was particularly distasteful, became out
spoken in its disgust, and the wish was
freely expressed that the champions
might be terribly beaten IN the race.
The bitterness was intensified by the
attitude assumed by the Chicago man
ageInent. Spalding had filled his pnrse
he turned about and assured the lovers
of the national sport that he did not let
them go for money-perish the thought
but
BECAUSE THEY DRANK,
and were therefore unreliable. AS the
season advanced, the reading public
often remembered with broad smile
this estimate of the departed Chicago,
players when, in scanning the morning
papers, they ran across such expressions
as these: "Dalrymple made a home
run in the eighth, tying the score, land his
terrific drive over the left-field fence in
the tenth gave Pittsburg the game.
DaFs old admirers were mean enough
to applaud him heartily, but Arson and
Spalding refused to see anything pleas
ing in his brilliant stick work." ''1he
only Mike Kelly was prince every
where to-day. He went to bat five times,
making two triples, double and two
singles, and accepted eleven chances in
the field. Kelly was particularly handy
in getting behind the ball when Arson
was at the bat, and to Kelly is to-day's
victory due" "With the score tied and
two men out in the eighth inning, Gore
stepped into the breach in way that
sent every hat on the polo grounds into
the air. He waited until three strikes
had been called, and then he fell on the
ball with a swoop born of desperation
and sent it no man knows where. Suf-
flee it to say, he made the circuit and
just such game she pitched in his
palmiest days at Cleveland. The White
Stockings faced him in the same half
hearted way they would cyclone, and
never had chance to win the game"
Now this
TICKLED THE PUBLIC
immensely, but the effect on Arson and
Spalding was about the same as if an
icicle had been dropped down their
backs. 1t was sorry kind of an in
dorSement of their position. Before the
season opened Detroit made trip
through the South, West and North
west, making the remarkable record of
a victory in every game, and the impress
sion was pretty general that Detroit
would prove winner. Chicago, how
ever, had many admirers, not because
of its team-the players were many of
hrft nf
prestige and the belief that Arson could
make a ball player of any timber to
which he chose to give his attention.
Boston also had some friends, and here
and there man hoped rather than be-
lieved that New York or Philadelphia
would win. PittSburg was well equipped
with pitchers, but its weakness with the
willow took it out of the race before the
season opened. Washington and In
dianapoliS were also known to be out of
the race from the start. Most of the
wise men in the sporting fraternity
placed the five leaders in this order:
Philadelphia. Boston stock rose per-
eeptibly at the very outset. and the
gilt-edged Hub aggregation showed its
nose in front May 4. Detroit, however,
took the lead the 5th, and never lost it
once from that date to Oct. s. Chicago
got bad start, and seemed an easy
victim for any team. The White Stock
ings soon began pulling steadily to-
gether, however, and
THE ST TOLD YOU sos"
came out to remark in a loud voice that
"Chicago would get there just the
same" Both Chicago and Detroit got
pretty rough usage on their second trip
East, and returned to Detroit pretty
close together and pretty badly broken
up. Chicago won two of the three
games and the two teams went to Chi
cago. Chicago won the first game there,
Detroit the next, the league directors
threw out the disputed Detroit-New
York game, and behold there was tie.
The excitement at this point was, of
course, very high, and the majority of
the knowing ones" predicted that Chi
cago would take the lead and never be
headed. The following day, however.
the Wolverines batted Clarkson at will
and got lead of one game again. This
was August Is. Chicago went to Pitts
burg and Detroit to Indianapolis, and
both the visiting teams lost two games
out of three. At this time Philadelphia,
New York and Boston were crowding
the leaders hard, and many expressed
the belief that one of the Eastern teams
would lead before the Westerners left
for home. Predictsons were again